I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Without new ideas success can become stale

I have the best job in the world.